Matthew Christopher Hulbert
I’m an Elliott Associate Professor of History at Hampden-Sydney College. My research revolves around nineteenth-century America with special interests in the American Civil War, guerrilla warfare in the western borderlands, Civil War memory, film history, and the western frontier. In addition to being a Series Editor for American Wars and Popular Culture at LSU Press, I write a regular column — called “Observatory” — for The Civil War Monitor.
Studying under John Inscoe, I received my Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2015 after spending 2014 as a H. F. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow. My dissertation received both the 2016 C. Vann Woodward Prize from the Southern Historical Association and the 2015 Lewis Eldon Atherton Prize from the State Historical Society of Missouri. I’m the author or editor of five books, including The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory, which received the 2017 Wiley-Silver Prize, and Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War, which was a finalist for the 2024 Spur Award in Western Biography. Additionally, my work on guerrilla warfare, Civil War memory, the West, and pop culture has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Kansas City Star, The Civil War Monitor, the Western Historical Quarterly, Civil War History, Common-Place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, the Journal of the Civil War Era, and the Journal of the West. At Hampden-Sydney College, I teach courses on the American Civil War and Reconstruction, the History of Hunting and Fishing in America, and the American West in History and Film, along with various seminars and introductory surveys.
